Microsoft: "Windows XP" security risk

Microsoft: "Windows XP" security risk

Microsoft Corp. warned American users of the operating system software and Windows XP - which released 12 years ago - that this system involves a serious security risk , and more susceptible to viruses and spyware compared to newer versions of Windows systems.

According to a report security information released by Microsoft for the first half of 2013, the infection rates for Windows XP (Service Pack third version 32 bits ) spyware amounted to 9.1 per thousand device compared to five devices per thousand devices running operating system Windows 7, and 1 .4 device of every thousand of the devices that are running Windows 8.

The report - which reported the website American " Info World," on the news of the technical - that the weakness that the pain system, Windows XP after 12 years of raised and after the emergence of newer versions of Windows is not surprising , as the creators of spyware got a long time to master their attacks and monitoring weaknesses and exploit weak security protection in Windows XP .

He added that continue to use Windows XP in 2014 will involve a greater risk , especially after Microsoft stopped providing technical support for this regime in April / April of next year.

It is scheduled to transmit and Windows XP - which is considered the most successful operating system put forward by Microsoft at all - for retirement on April 8 / April 2014, a day that will go the Redmond company Wash Information Security last update package security of the system , which has been working efficiently over more than a decade.

The company says "Nate Iblekishnz " of the analytical studies that 37.2% of personal computers in the world currently operating system, Windows XP , equivalent to 570 million device almost , assuming the accuracy of estimates of Microsoft, which says that the number of computers operating systems Windows on a different $ 1.4 billion devices around the world.

Forecasts indicate that the rate of use of Windows XP will fall in April / April 2014 to 30.5 % of the total computer operating systems and Windows , a date on which depend the technical support of the system.